Yeah I'm really pissed at how obvious the writers make it how little they care about Cary :( They never did anything with him after his trial arc either, he's just basically been a voice in the background for most episodes, they've barely bothered keeping his character consistent. For a start the writing for both Cary and Diane when it comes to interacting with people of colour has been so clunky this season. It's like the show can now only see Cary as a privileged white male, and so of course he would be clumsy in his interactions with black women and suggest that Monica and Lucca should automatically become friends, even though that's complete character assassination with how he was portrayed in the past six seasons. Ditto with how out of touch Diane suddenly was, even though she was always shown dealing with people of other races (including partners at the firm) without being super awkward about it


And now the show clearly wants us to root for Alicia and Diane cutting Cary out him for an ~all-woman firm~, even though he's been the one who's had Alicia's back for a long time now. It was Diane that cut Alicia out because of her right-wing client being against her, and it was Diane who hesitated at Cary's suggestion to bring Alicia back to the firm, but suddenly we're supposed to be all gung-ho for this out of the blue partnership just cause they're both women?